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Headword:
*su/mbolon
Adler number: sigma,1375
Translated headword: token
Vetting Status: high
Translation: What the [sc. Athenian] jurors used to take when going into the courtroom; then, having given this [in], they would collect the juror's fee.[1] [The jurors] were numbered from alpha to kappa [i.e. 1 to 10].[2]
"[See that] when we have taken the token, we are sitting near each other."[3]
Look under the [entry] bakteria ["staff"].[4]
Greek Original:*su/mbolon: o(\ e)la/mbanon oi( dikastai\ ei)s to\ dikasth/rion ei)sio/ntes, ei)=ta tou=to do/ntes to\ dikastiko\n e)komi/zonto. h)=san de\ to\n a)riqmo\n a)po\ tou= a# e(/ws tou= k#. to\ su/mbolon labo/ntes, e)/peita plhsi/oi kaqedou/menoi. zh/tei e)n tw=| bakthri/a.
Notes:
The first and principal paragraph of this entry was attributed by Wentzel to a rhetorical source; compare in event the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Plutus [
Wealth] 277.
[1] The process is described at
Aristotle,
Ath.Pol. 65.2 (web address 1). The token here (for which cf.
beta 49, and
Demosthenes 18.210: web address 2) is not to be confused with the one issued to the juror when he comes to cast his vote (68.2). For a full discussion of this obscure passage, see
Rhodes (1993) 711-712.
[2]
Aristotle,
Ath.Pol. 63.4 (web address 3). This assignment did not happen on the day of trial, but was permanently inscribed on each juror's ticket. See
Rhodes (1993) 704.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Ecclesiazusae 296-7 (web address 4).
[4]
beta 49.
P.J. Rhodes, A Commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993)
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Web address 1,
Web address 2,
Web address 3,
Web address 4
Keywords: comedy; definition; economics; law
Translated by: Hershal Pleasant on 3 April 2000@10:56:00.
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